kinds of characters

[Terrance]

We get the term character from the Greeks too. At one time, character
was a genre. 
If Churchill is a character in Pynchon's Foreword, other than his being
an historical figure in a fiction, as he is in so many fictions, what
kind of character is he? 

like the fictional  Washington  (I'm guessing that Washington is a
character in more fictions than Churchill) we can say all sorts of
things about the man, Churchill, and all the fictions that have been
written/read/written (where does this end again?) about him and how
these figure in the character in Pynchon's foreword, but what can we say
about him as character in the Foreword? What kind of character is he?